Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 22:43:40 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com, vojtech@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Making keyboard/mouse drivers dependent on CONFIG_EMBEDDED
Message-ID: <20030607204340.GC667@elf.ucw.cz>
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Hi!


> > I finally got sick of seeing bug reports from people who did not enable
> > CONFIG_VT or forgot to enable the obscure options for the keyboard
> > driver. This is especially a big problem for people who do make oldconfig
> > with a 2.4 configuration, but seems to happen in general often.
> > I also included the PS/2 mouse driver. It is small enough and a useful
> > fallback on any PC.
> > 
> > This patch wraps all this for i386/amd64 in CONFIG_EMBEDDED. If 
> > CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not defined they are not visible and always enabled.
> 
> This sounds like a bad idea.  many modern PCs only have usb keyboard/mouse
> these days.  Having them in defconfig is fine but we shouldn't obsfucate
> the kernel config due to user stupidity.

Its more like "make oldconfig" limitation, IIRC. If you have some old
config, it ignores defconfig and suggests you N for new options. And
yes people were hitting that.
								Pavel
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